And those are the peat swamp forests on 20 meters of peat, the largest accumulation of organic material in the world.

And these mosses, generated by decomposing, are like peat moss in your garden.

When the peat ignites, the fire can creep beneath the surface and erupt somewhere else, days or weeks later. And, like coal, peat stores massive amounts of carbon, which is released into the atmosphere when the land is burned, cleared, and drained to make way for plantations.

1 Project activities referring to the burning of peat and non biogenic waste should not be included in the indicative

It turned out he was hired by a Scottish distillery to understand why they were burning so damn much peat to distill the whiskey.

In November 2003, the House of Assembly passed the Financial Services Commission Act to fulfil a recommendation of Klynveld Peat Marwick and Goerdeler (KPMG) consultants.

The State shall encourage coal mining enterprises to develop coal washing and processing as well as comprehensive exploitation and utilization of coalbed methane, gangue, coal slime, stone coal and peat.

Re wetting peatlands and the restoration of degraded peat forests should be the next step, followed by the creation of early warning systems to detect and control forest fires. Finally, with the support of the private sector, Indonesia needs to establish a community based forest management system.